Monument record MDO1385 - Bowl barrow, one of the Winterbourne Poor Lot barrow group, Littlebredy

Two bowl barrows on arable ground. 'A' - Diameter 28 paces, height 5ft. <3>

Two bowl barrows under the plough, with no visible ditches. Barrow 'A' is very flinty on top but otherwise both 'A' and 'B' are similar with diameters of 28.0m and heights of 1.7m. <5>

Three bowl barrows (part of a large group - see also SY 59 SE 67) north of Littlebredy church (see illust).
'A' - Littlebredy 9j. Diameter 74 ft, height 4ft. <4>

Three bowl barrows listed on arable.
'A' - SY 58838990 Littlebredy 14. <6>

SY 589898. Group of round barrows south of Winterbourne Poor Lot. Scheduled. <8>

A Bronze Age bowl barrow lying at SY5885089898. The barrow is visible as cropmarks and earthworks on aerial photographs <10-11> and is 28m across with an outer ditch. It was digitally plotted during the South Dorset Ridgeway Mapping Project.

<1> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1891 (Map). SWX1540.

('A' - SY 58848990; 'B' - SY 58868986; 'C' - SY 58828994) Tumuli (NR)

<2> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1903 (Map). SWX1540.

('A' - SY 58848990; 'B' - SY 58868986) Tumuli (NR)

<3> Grinsell, L V, 1935-54, Dorset Barrows 1935-54 Manuscript (Unpublished document). SWX1556.

<4> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 39 (Monograph). SDO97.

‘(9) Barrows, forming a group of eleven, are ½ to ¾ m. N. of the church. … (j) bowl barrow, 50 yards S.S.E. of (i), is 74 ft. in diam. and 4½ ft. high.’

<5> Quinnell, N V, Various, Field Investigators Comments NVQ, F1 NVQ 28-MAR-55 (Unpublished document). SDO11903.

<6> Grinsell, L V, 1959, Dorset Barrows, 117 (Monograph). SDO132.

<7> Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey Map 6in, 1967 (Map). SWX1540.

'A' - SY 58848990, 'B' - SY 58868986, 'C' - SY 58828994) Tumuli (NR)

<8> Department of the Environment, 1978, Department of the Environment (IAM) Ancient Monuments of England (Vol 2), 65 (Monograph). SWX1687.

<9> Papworth, M, 1983, The South Dorset Ridgeway Project: condition and management survey, SDR 116 (Index). SDO12304.

Dimensions as above, but due to it being located on a W facing slope it is 1.70m high on the W while only 1.0m on the E. This barrow has been protected from further damage by the provision of marker posts around the barrow together with SDR 115. This has created a rectangular unploughed, grass covered zone in a field that was ploughed and under grass when visited. 1/3/B

<10> Royal Air Force, 17-JAN-1947, RAF/CPE/UK/1934 5099-100 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11149.

<11> 02-APR-1969, NMR OS/69053/002-3 (Aerial Photograph). SDO11139.

<12> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South Dorset Ridgeway Barrow Survey 2010 (Unpublished document). SDO12407.

<13> National Record of the Historic Environment, 450342 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Jan 24 2024 2:53PM